chess,a game for life?

http://www.chess.com/js/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-sealed.gifChess is a game of tactics and patience.Where you spend a lot of time inside your head pondering the vaguries of your opponent and the game.And introspectivly of your self and your own game.But sometimes your thoughts wander as mine did when this thought came to me,the greatest journey anyone can make is between one thought and the next.For thoughts have no bounderies--no limit,they are not linear,For past --present--future are all one to them,. As are the hopes and dreams, present --lost--hoped for,If we as a species are here for the "long haul",we must get in touch with ourselves,Chess does that beautifuly.It teaches us the disciplin of "getting inside ourselves" of patience and tolerance. And just as important, through it,-- others.From that ,-everything is possible..